Greenville County Schools releases 2021-22 student calendar

Greenville County Schools has released its 2021-22 student calendar. The new school year will begin Aug. 17, 2021, and end June 3, 2022.

The calendar includes 180 scheduled instructional days and 10 professional development or teacher workdays. In addition, GCS will not use makeup days in the new school year for inclement weather since the district is approved for eLearning. These days have been added to the calendar to create additional long weekends, including around the Easter holiday, Apr. 15-18, 2022.

Holidays or notable days for the 2021-22 school year include:

Labor Day, Sept. 6, 2021
Thanksgiving break, Nov. 24-26, 2021
Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jan. 17, 2022
Presidents’ Day, Feb. 21, 2022
Memorial Day, May 30, 2022
Teacher workdays with students out of school, Oct. 18-19, 2021, Jan. 14, 2022 and Mar. 18, 2022
Last day of school before winter break with half-day attendance, Dec. 17, 2021
First day back after winter break, Jan. 3, 2022
Spring break, Mar. 21-25, 2022
Last days of school with half day attendance, June 2-3, 2022
High school graduations, May 31 and June 1-3, 2022

The school calendar was determined by the superintendent after receiving recommendations from the Calendar Committee, which is comprised of teachers, principals, staff and parents and receives input from parent groups and school faculties. The recommendations are also based on state requirements and factors including testing dates set by the South Carolina Department of Education.